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From: rudoff@MDI.COM (Doug Rudoff)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Jam/DBi: How does it work?
Message-ID: <1991Jan31.002416.24897@MDI.COM>
Date: 31 Jan 91 00:24:16 GMT
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I have seen JAM in action and have some literature on JAM/DBi, but I'm
not quite sure how JAM/DBi works.

I get the impression that it starts up a database process and sends SQL
queries to it, and somehow reads in the returns and passes it back
into the executable C code. Is this correct? Or, does it require the
use of a embedded SQL in the code?

I would be using JAM with Informix on a DEC 5810 running Ultrix,
mainly to find something more powerful than sperform to handle forms.

If JAM/DBi doesn't use embedded SQL, can it be used as a replacement
for it?

If someone has some source code generated by JAM/DBi, I would be
interested in seeing it.

My main goal is to convince my supervisor that we need something more
powerful and flexible than C-ISAM to access our database.
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